And that's fine, but you don't get to really complain about it afterwards when you contribute financially to the folks who only will be motivated by financial considerations.
Except the value of insurance isn't subjective from the perspective of everyone else. If one of those "reasonable, rational people who did not purchase health insurance" gets hit by a bus and has the good luck to survive, then almost certainly it'll be everyone else paying for their treatment in one way or another.
Only because some folks insist that society pick up the tab for people who make bad decisions. Some of us would have a society that says "oh, you didn't buy insurance and now you're really sick? That's a bummer. What are YOU going do to save yourself?"
The trick is - the NSA has proven that you can't provide effective oversight if the overseers don't have actual direct access to that which they're overseeing.
If they rely on the folks they're overseeing to provide them with the data, it's trivial to provide the illusion of oversight with any of it's pesky actual observance of what is going on.
They're the ones who advertised "This Season Pass will contain all episodes of Breaking Bad, Season 5" without actually verifying they had the rights to offer all that content for that price.
You ABSOLUTELY can sign away your rights. People do it all the time.
I have the right to work for whomever will hire me. But in many states, I can sign away that right via a non-compete clause.
I have the right to say whatever non-defamatory statements I want to make. But I can certainly sign that right away as part of a confidentiality agreement, or non-disclosure agreement.
These are just the most trivial of examples. There are countless others.
No they don't. They started shipping with them in the mid 2000's, but never built a driver for one, and stopped including it in their hardware in 2009.
I've been an Apple user for over a decade, and haven't found a need to open one up other than to increase memory or replace a hard drive.
Other people's mileage will, of course, vary, but the vast majority of folks don't need to tinker inside their machines (and in fact their lives would be so much simpler if they stopped).
This is what Abraham Lincoln did and he is considered a hero.
Not to fans of the Constitution he's not.
Lincoln destroyed the sanctity of the Constitution to preserve his vision of what the Union should be. I have no qualms with his pro-abolition stance, but his means of getting there were abhorrent.
I'm not ignorant to what's happening, but what part of my sentence was factually inaccurate? Did the military not take over the country and appoint a new leader? Is that not the textbook definition of a coup d'etat?
I'm well aware of the various failings of the Morsi administration, but let's be clear: if 17% of the population of the US was protesting the Obama administration, and the Joint Chiefs had suspended the rule of law embodied by the Constitution to appoint John Roberts as President, it would not be "wrong" of the US gov't-in-exile to be like "these folks have usurped lawful authority, fire at will, if you can."
That's not to say that I don't personally think Egypt will be better, post-coup (just as that's not to say that I don't think America might be better after some theoretical post-coup situation), I'm merely stating the fact that it can't come as a surprise to anyone that the supporters of a government, usurped by military power, are calling for violent means to "re-establish the lawful order".
Again - Ellison can afford to pay the monthly invoice from Blackwater. At which point he has a military. The same military we use for half of our dirtiest jobs.
I wonder if they'll tweet an "oops,our bad #fail #sosorry" when it comes time for them to lay waste to an American military vessel in international waters.
I don't think it requires new laws or regulations either.
I'm beginning to think we're perilously close to being in violent agreement with each other, just describing different sides of the "current situation":-)
BTW, what I "want to be done" will happen organically. LTE will (finally) standardize the carriers (give it five to ten years for it or its backwards compatible successors to be ubiquitous nationwide), at which point you won't have the GSM/CDMA divide, and you won't have the "CDMA phone has to be flashed to the carrier" requirement. At THAT point, unlocked unsubsidized phones work exactly as everyone hopes they will (although still a pipe dream if anyone thinks that's going to lower the monthly pricing from any major carrier).
You do the best you can with the hand you're dealt and the needs you've got. For various reasons, an iPhone is the best choice of phone for me, for work purposes. For network reasons, Sprint is the only real player in town.
Short of selling my house and moving to attempt to make some silly point to a wireless provider who won't even notice or care, there's not a whole lot that I can actually do.
This has nothing to do with monthly fees (which - I agree - should be charged based on the costs the actual customers incur to the carrier), and please don't presume to tell me what I expect. I expect solely the things which I myself have said.
I'm saying, again, TODAY, in the current world, where there isn't a single ubiquitous standard for phone interoperability, that if I can only use "this device" on "your network", and I can't take it to your competitor, then you damned well better be subsidizing the cost of that "carrier lock-in", because that phone is decidedly of lower value than an identical phone which could be used on - literally - any carrier.
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So you choose "fun" over "principles".
And that's fine, but you don't get to really complain about it afterwards when you contribute financially to the folks who only will be motivated by financial considerations.
Except the value of insurance isn't subjective from the perspective of everyone else. If one of those "reasonable, rational people who did not purchase health insurance" gets hit by a bus and has the good luck to survive, then almost certainly it'll be everyone else paying for their treatment in one way or another.
Only because some folks insist that society pick up the tab for people who make bad decisions. Some of us would have a society that says "oh, you didn't buy insurance and now you're really sick? That's a bummer. What are YOU going do to save yourself?"
The trick is - the NSA has proven that you can't provide effective oversight if the overseers don't have actual direct access to that which they're overseeing.
If they rely on the folks they're overseeing to provide them with the data, it's trivial to provide the illusion of oversight with any of it's pesky actual observance of what is going on.
They're the ones who advertised "This Season Pass will contain all episodes of Breaking Bad, Season 5" without actually verifying they had the rights to offer all that content for that price.
You ABSOLUTELY can sign away your rights. People do it all the time.
I have the right to work for whomever will hire me. But in many states, I can sign away that right via a non-compete clause.
I have the right to say whatever non-defamatory statements I want to make. But I can certainly sign that right away as part of a confidentiality agreement, or non-disclosure agreement.
These are just the most trivial of examples. There are countless others.
Only in the laptops, and that's because in the "quest for thinner" things have had to be surface-mounted. In the Mac Pro, it's still upgradeable.
Not terribly concerned on that front, to be honest.
What's that supposed to mean?
No they don't. They started shipping with them in the mid 2000's, but never built a driver for one, and stopped including it in their hardware in 2009.
Thanks for playin', though.
I've been an Apple user for over a decade, and haven't found a need to open one up other than to increase memory or replace a hard drive.
Other people's mileage will, of course, vary, but the vast majority of folks don't need to tinker inside their machines (and in fact their lives would be so much simpler if they stopped).
Buy an Apple computer? They haven't had TPMs of any sort for a long time, near as I can tell from the literature.
If you're REALLY dead set on not even having it at all... You're going to be stuck 2 generations ago forever.
Or you can just buy Apple products, which don't have the TPM in them, last I knew.
This is what Abraham Lincoln did and he is considered a hero.
Not to fans of the Constitution he's not.
Lincoln destroyed the sanctity of the Constitution to preserve his vision of what the Union should be. I have no qualms with his pro-abolition stance, but his means of getting there were abhorrent.
I'm not ignorant to what's happening, but what part of my sentence was factually inaccurate? Did the military not take over the country and appoint a new leader? Is that not the textbook definition of a coup d'etat?
I'm well aware of the various failings of the Morsi administration, but let's be clear: if 17% of the population of the US was protesting the Obama administration, and the Joint Chiefs had suspended the rule of law embodied by the Constitution to appoint John Roberts as President, it would not be "wrong" of the US gov't-in-exile to be like "these folks have usurped lawful authority, fire at will, if you can."
That's not to say that I don't personally think Egypt will be better, post-coup (just as that's not to say that I don't think America might be better after some theoretical post-coup situation), I'm merely stating the fact that it can't come as a surprise to anyone that the supporters of a government, usurped by military power, are calling for violent means to "re-establish the lawful order".
I dunno. If someone staged a coup in the US, I'd be 'encouraging people to be violent' against it as well.
"few" people? you think people don't move that often state to state?
Only Section 3 of DOMA has been ruled unconstitutional (the definition of marriage)
Section 2 - where anti-gay-marriage states do not have to recognize gay marriages from other states - is alive and well (and awful).
Again - Ellison can afford to pay the monthly invoice from Blackwater. At which point he has a military. The same military we use for half of our dirtiest jobs.
I think Ellison can afford Blackwater's monthly invoice.
It sounds a whole lot like Ellison is planning to just break-away from the US and declare his island a sovereign state.
And, frankly, he can't do a worse job than most of the other developed nations are doing these days.
I wonder if they'll tweet an "oops,our bad #fail #sosorry" when it comes time for them to lay waste to an American military vessel in international waters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
I'm totally stealing this quote (attributed), and posting it on Facebook.
I don't think it requires new laws or regulations either.
I'm beginning to think we're perilously close to being in violent agreement with each other, just describing different sides of the "current situation" :-)
BTW, what I "want to be done" will happen organically. LTE will (finally) standardize the carriers (give it five to ten years for it or its backwards compatible successors to be ubiquitous nationwide), at which point you won't have the GSM/CDMA divide, and you won't have the "CDMA phone has to be flashed to the carrier" requirement. At THAT point, unlocked unsubsidized phones work exactly as everyone hopes they will (although still a pipe dream if anyone thinks that's going to lower the monthly pricing from any major carrier).
You do the best you can with the hand you're dealt and the needs you've got. For various reasons, an iPhone is the best choice of phone for me, for work purposes. For network reasons, Sprint is the only real player in town.
Short of selling my house and moving to attempt to make some silly point to a wireless provider who won't even notice or care, there's not a whole lot that I can actually do.
This has nothing to do with monthly fees (which - I agree - should be charged based on the costs the actual customers incur to the carrier), and please don't presume to tell me what I expect. I expect solely the things which I myself have said.
I'm saying, again, TODAY, in the current world, where there isn't a single ubiquitous standard for phone interoperability, that if I can only use "this device" on "your network", and I can't take it to your competitor, then you damned well better be subsidizing the cost of that "carrier lock-in", because that phone is decidedly of lower value than an identical phone which could be used on - literally - any carrier.
Period. Full-stop.